Quotes about habit

"Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts."

Adler, Mortimer J. on habit   

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Aristotle on habit
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"It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom."

Aristotle on habit
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"Habit is ten times nature."

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington on habit   

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"Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity."

Augustine, St. on habit
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"A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page."

Ballou, Hosea on habit   

"The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind."

Beausacq, Maria De on habit   

"Habit is a great deadener."

Beckett, Samuel on habit   

"Habit is a shackle for the free."

Bierce, Ambrose on habit   

"Never permit failure to become a habit."

Book, William Frederick on habit
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"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are."

Brillat-Savarin, Anthelme on habit
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"Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves."

Bushnell, Horace on habit   

"Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have."

Carnegie, Dale on habit
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"Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse."

Chaucer, Geoffrey on habit   

"Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them."

Christie, Agatha on habit
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"Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain."

Cicero, Marcus T. on habit   

"To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring."

Cioran, E. M. on habit   

"The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it is etched."

Coudert, Jo on habit   

"Make good habits and they will make you."

Cousins, Parks on habit
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"Habit with him was all the test of truth, it must be right: I've done it from my youth."

Crabbe, George on habit   

"It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on habit   

"We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."

Dryden, John on habit   

"Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas."

Dryden, John on habit   

"Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel."

Edwards, Tryon on habit   

"Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters."

Emmons, Nathaniel on habit
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"The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change."

Eng's Principle on habit   

"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit."

Erasmus, Desiderius on habit
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"Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself."

Evenus on habit   

"My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income."

Flynn, Errol on habit   

"Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good."

Franklin, Benjamin on habit
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"It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them."

Franklin, Benjamin on habit
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"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones."

Franklin, Benjamin on habit
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"The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might of the force of habit and must understand that practices are what create habits. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires."

Getty, J. Paul on habit   

"First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you."

Gilbert, Dr. Rob on habit   

"There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people..."

Giraudoux, Jean on habit   

"Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits."

Givens, Charles J. on habit
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"The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on habit   

"The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits."

Harris, James on habit   

"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."

Hoffer, Eric on habit   

"Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you."

Hubbard, Elbert on habit
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